#Artistry Quotes

“Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.”

“I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.”

“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”

“I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.”

“Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”

“When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."”

“A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.”

“I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.”

“I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.”

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...”

“I feel that I speak the musical language.”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”

“I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.”

“Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.”

“If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.”

“Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.”

“Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that”

“I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.”

“To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheetI'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat”

“See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.”

“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”

“I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.”

“I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.”

“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.”

“When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.”

“Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.”

“There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.”